Biography & Memoir
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Paperback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Paperback
Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Paperback
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Hardback
The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country
Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words
Hardback
The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the great American songbook emerges from his brother’s shadow